Recent content by Blaberus Craniifer

So a long time ago I talked with some of you about the glowing spots of glowspot cockroaches and why they don't glow in captivity.  I mentioned that it would be really cool if  someone would attempt to get them to glow with faerie fire mushrooms. They agreed it would be cool but they couldn't...

So I recently went to Disneyland and found this smushed roach in the California Adventure park and then I found another unfortunately smushed one in the main park. I was reading Hisserdude's post about Dorylaea orini today and this guy sure looks like one. I think it would be pretty funny to...

I live in the bay area, near San Francisco and I was wondering what kinds of native roaches could I find near me. I would like to go out and find some roaches because I quite enjoy going outside and looking under rocks and logs for various insects and reptiles or amphibians and it would be...

What kinds of hissing cockroaches tend to get the biggest and how big do they get? I am asking because I would like to hybridize them in the future to make a larger hissing cockroach. And yes, I will be very responsible about it.

I have just purchased three female hissers, and was wondering if anyone has advice on keeping them? how deep should their substrate be? And any food advice?

I am new to the hobby and have purchased a couple Deaths Head nymphs from BugsInCyberspace and I was wondering if anyone has advice or tips for me about preferred foods, habitat, heating methods, etc